The National Youth Orchestra Scotland’s contemporary chamber ensemble NYOS Futures are making their way up North this weekend to perform Steve Reich‘s masterpiece Eight Lines on Sunday 24 October. It has been said of American composer Steve Reich who pioneered the style of minimalist music that he is one of “a handful of living composers [...]
Graham Fitkin and his Ensemble spent three whole days last week locked up in Dartington College (Devon) to rehearse for their first ever Scottish dates. They are playing in Edinburgh tomorrow evening and heading north to sound this Thursday (yes, only a couple of days left to buy tickets folk!). Although the Ensemble is barely [...]
All string players are invited to join composer Sally Beamish and conductor Garry Walker on Sunday 31 October for a FREE day long workshop rehearsing Sally’s Rhapsody on Themes from Hafez. Below, Sally gives us some insight on the piece but for more, Johnston Hall is where you want to be on 31 October… “The [...]
On Wednesday 20 October, Red Note Ensemble will launch sound with a new piece of music by Gabriel Jackson. John Harris, chief executive and artistic co-director of the ensemble shares with us the thrill of first setting eyes on a new score…
This is the second year sound as worked closely with DanceLive to programme events that include elements of new music and contemporary dance. Jenny Phillips, festival producer gives us a taster!
A regular at sound, flautist Richard Craig will be joined by Margaret Preston to lead a Flute Course on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 October in Uni’s MacRobert Building. Read on to find out why all flutes players should attend…
Pete Stollery, composer, teacher and performer based in Aberdeen and founder of sound in 2004 helps the festival take its first few steps into the blogging world by introducing you to this year’s programme.
